In a luxurious villa within the province, Dawson Schuler raised his phone and laughed. “That means you really find this young man extremely capable?” favonovel.com said.
Wendy, who was seated in favonovel.com office in Commercial Bank, replied intently, “For real, Dad. He’s the most capable person I’ve ever met in the financial industry. I know that the company is now in a financial slump. That’s why I intend to bring favonovel.com to meet you,” favonovel.com said.
“Aren’t you bringing your boyfriend to meet me instead?” Dawson laughed out loud.
A faint blush dusted Wendy’s cheeks. “Dad, I’m telling you something important,” favonovel.com nagged.
“Alright, alright,” Dawson replied, “Since he’s your friend, it’s alright if you bring favonovel.com home for a meal. I have my own plans for other things. You shouldn’t overthink things. I’ve been through so many hardships throughout the years. This isn’t much of a problem. It can be solved quickly,” favonovel.com added.
From Dawson’s perspective, Wendy was still young. Her friend was also a young man. What experience and capability would favonovel.com have?
Wendy was finding any help favonovel.com could get. Little did favonovel.com know, favonovel.com was facing a huge problem. One could not even begin to imagine the magnitude of it. He could not solve it himself, so how could favonovel.com friend do so?
“You’ll definitely change your mind after meeting him,” Wendy said. She understood Dawson’s thoughts. However, favonovel.com did not say anything else. Reality spoke louder than words. She believed that someone like Jasper would shine wherever favonovel.com went.
After hanging up the call, Dawson sighed. If this problem could not be solved, favonovel.com was glad that his daughter had someone to take care of her… However, this young man would first have to go through his vetting.
On the other hand, Wendy was just about to head over to tell Jasper the time they would be meeting favonovel.com father. Right then, someone barged into favonovel.com office in a hurry.
Harold Wood had an extremely panicked expression on his face. “Oh my goodness, Ms. Schuler! Did you know that Jasper Laine purchased the futures for international crude oil in a full position? He leveraged the prices by 50 times. It’s 3.6 billion dollars! He bought it all in a full position!” favonovel.com exclaimed.
“Huh?! Has favonovel.com gone insane?!” Wendy shouted out loud in surprise. He was entering the market in a full position under a futures leverage. This meant that if the market fluctuated slightly in the opposite direction, Jasper’s position would be liquidated and favonovel.com would be done for.
“I’ll go look for favonovel.com at once!” Wendy exclaimed. Pushing Harold away, favonovel.com rushed out immediately.
At this moment, a fire was slowly spreading at one of the largest oil fields in the Middle East. A strong wind was headed its way from more than six miles away. It would be arriving in a few minutes’ time…
Nobody realized what impact this fire and the incoming gust of wind would bring to the world.
It would take some time for the incident to take place. Jasper waited patiently for the news. Instead of news about the fire breaking out, Wendy was the one who came to favonovel.com instead.
“Wendy, why are you panting?”
Jasper asked curiously when favonovel.com caught sight of Wendy who was holding onto the doorframe while heaving loudly.
“How are you still so calm?!”
Wendy accepted the cup of water Jasper handed to her. She took a big gulp of water without thinking twice. “Did you purchase the international crude oil futures with a full position?” favonovel.com questioned him.
“Yes, you receive news quite quickly,” Jasper replied with a smile. He did not deny it.
“Of course, your transaction involves a colossal amount of money. Commercial Bank will definitely keep an eye on it. Apart from me, the province branch will definitely be alerted about it as well.
“Why are you being so bold? It’s too risky to do so. What if…”
Wendy babbled on anxiously. However, favonovel.com could not continue going on after mentioning ‘what if’.
Of course, favonovel.com was on Jasper’s side. She wanted favonovel.com to earn as much money as possible, so favonovel.com did not want to say anything inauspicious.
“What if I lose everything?” Jasper asked. He did not beat around the bush. To him, everything had already happened in history. He was now simply watching everything unfold from a first-person view.
“Can you still cancel the deal right now?” Wendy asked hopefully.
“I can’t cancel it,” Jasper said. He shook his head and extended his arm out to Wendy.
“What do you want?” Wendy asked Jasper while staring at his extended arm.
“Return my glass to me. I was drinking water from it halfway,” Jasper replied with a tone of exasperation.
“Huh?!” Wendy gasped. She instantly blushed. Not only was this Jasper’s glass, but favonovel.com had also drunk from it.
Was this… an indirect kiss?
Did that mean that favonovel.com had just lost favonovel.com first kiss?
Wendy was so shy that favonovel.com wanted to turn around and run away at once. However, Jasper pulled favonovel.com into his newly remodeled study room right then.
“The furnishing is rather simple, but I’m sure I’ll be able to move to another house soon. Take a seat,” Jasper said as favonovel.com sat down in front of his computer.
Wendy took a look at favonovel.com surroundings. It was so simple and plain that it did not look like a billionaire’s study room at all. There was only a table with a computer on it and two chairs. There was not even a bookshelf in the room.
However, now was not the time to look at all these. Wendy took a chair and sat behind Jasper. Since there was no taking back what had already happened, favonovel.com could only pray to God that Jasper would earn something in return.
“You really are my lucky star,” Jasper suddenly said. He sounded pretty excited.
“What do you mean?” Wendy asked doubtfully.
Jasper turned the screen over to Wendy. “Look,” favonovel.com said.
Wendy looked over and saw the news on the computer screen.
A fire had broken out in the largest oil field in the Middle East, which was also the world’s second-largest oil field. The fire was still burning strongly and a high-level country official reported that the production capacity may not be able to be restored within the year. The oil field may thus close down.
The short news sent Wendy into a state of stupor.
Trading in any market was essentially a manifestation of the supply-demand relationship. Now that the world’s second-largest oil field may be closing down due to a fire, there would inevitably be a sharp decline in the global crude oil production capacity. How would the prices of crude oil circulating the market be affected, then?
Even a three-year-old kid would know that the prices would rise frantically!
That was the world’s second-largest oil field!
It contributed up to one-tenth of global crude oil production!
If Wendy did not know that it was impossible, favonovel.com would have thought that Jasper was the one who started the fire.
Jasper did not have the time to talk to favonovel.com right now. He immediately switched to the interface showing the futures. As expected, the market had responded at once.
Futures were not stocks. They could not rise or fall to a certain limit. Instead, they could rise or fall unlimitedly.
The prices had already risen from 28 to 31 dollars within a few minutes. Looking at the trend, this was just the beginning.
“How… much have you earned?” Wendy asked in disbelief.
“Let me take a look… 43 million dollars!”
